macchina

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by macchina 14y ago
wow, they commissioned a survey. Pretty interesting actually. http://static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/november2012/poll.do...
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by macchina 14y ago
I clicked on some profiles, and I noticed that many of the e-mail addresses populated were @asdasd.ru — the domain of a Russian mailinator-type service. Something like that might be indexed.
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by macchina 14y ago
It's bound to happen, if not soon, at least once we start electing legislators who have grown up using these services.
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by macchina 14y ago
>its also likely they used them because they're cheaper or somehow easier for them for some reason besides keeping owners out of devices. I am having a hard time imagining a way this could be true.
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by macchina 14y ago
At least they are trying to create some sort of process instead of just running people into court. But I have a feeling innocent users of bittorrent will receive notices. It's not even clear whether they indicate the name of work infringed
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by macchina 14y ago
Facebook, banks, etc. I'd venture that some of these people's personal accounts are compromised by the leak.
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by macchina 14y ago
I'm fairly sure that full body scans do not fall under the border search exception. For one, the exception only applies to international borders, and usually, these types of searches would be performed by Customs agents—not the TSA.
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by macchina 14y ago
OK, but "70 percent of Huawei’s $32 billion revenue comes from outside China."[1] I think it's safe to assume that spying would be bad for business. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/business/global/15iht-tele...
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by macchina 14y ago
Does anyone know why it took so long to implement such a basic feature?
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by macchina 14y ago
The only thing that banning Huawei is sure to accomplish is choking innovation. It's reasonable to worry about security in telecommunications, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any telecom that doesn't manufacture equipment in China includi
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by macchina 14y ago
Indeed. The law is pretty arbitrary and outdated in my view. The sole (or at least primary) reason we have it is that Robert Bork's video rental history was leaked during his Supreme Court nomination in the 1980s.
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by macchina 14y ago
Apparently Netflix has implemented this feature outside the US. Also, it appears the law currently prevents Netflix from integrating the Facebook button as it requires "informed written consent of the consumer given at the time the disclosu
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by macchina 14y ago
The lawyer who sued Mr. Hogan on behalf of Seagate back in 1993 is now married to a partner at Quinn Emanuel, the lawyers for Samsung. Wow. Pretty bizarre coincidence, but I can't imagine Hogan was aware of this at trial.
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by macchina 14y ago
While I hate pagination, the mortal sin of click harvesting is the "slideshow." Nothing gets my blood boiling like a Top 100 list embedded in a clickthrough slideshow. For regular articles, I use the Autopager extension for Firefox.
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by macchina 14y ago
Indeed. 12 years ago, back when I juggled 4 or 5 different engines — I'd have welcomed something like Bing with open arms. The thing is, in those 12 years, I've invested lots of data and time in Google. But be that as it may, I feel like I'
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by macchina 14y ago
> Wouldn't you want to be able to find all cell phones that were in proximity to a significant number of the burglaries at the time that they happened? This kind of thing does happen and I don't have a problem with it. It's how the FBI
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by macchina 14y ago
It's Gonzalez-Servin v. Ford Motor Co. wherein Posner chastised the plaintiffs' attorneys for ignoring certain unfavorable case law. The published opinion contains images of an ostrich and a lawyer burying their heads in the sand. http://l
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by macchina 14y ago
Many of these difficult legal questions could be avoided if Congress would simply pass legislation governing this method of investigation. Right now, all over the country, the FBI obtains sealed (secret) court orders to obtain real time c
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by macchina 14y ago
Posner is an appeals court judge, but last summer he heard Apple v. Motorola while he was temporarily sitting as a trial judge. He dismissed the claims of both companies "with prejudice" which means the case cannot be filed again elsewhe
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by macchina 14y ago
Well there is still an option for so called high definition digital downloads. Although MP3 audio quality is good enough, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of companies marketing "high frequency" "lossless" recordings at a premium price.
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by macchina 14y ago
The article talks about the idea of the Federal Circuit "overruling" the Supreme Court by gradually chipping away at the principles behind SC precedent. Interestingly, similar charges have been made of the DC Circuit with regard to the Supr
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How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system(arstechnica.com)
163 points by macchina 14y ago|40 comments
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by macchina 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
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by macchina 14y ago
This is exactly right.
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by macchina 14y ago
OK, that's what I was trying to answer in the second option I gave. Based on my experience with the PTO, if you submitted prior art for general consideration, it would simply be returned to you or maybe discarded. There is no system in plac
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by macchina 14y ago
I worked at a Patent Law firm for 4 years and submitted thousands of prior art references to the USPTO in patent applications. I will try to answer your questions as best as I can. I'm not a lawyer and definitely not a patent lawyer. (I'm i
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by macchina 14y ago
Seems to me that this quote applies: "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
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by macchina 14y ago
This is mostly unrelated, but some might find it interesting. I went to a Wells Fargo ATM to make a transaction, but the machine was in a sort of debug mode. The bank was closed. I messed around with it for a minute or two because I was cur
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by macchina 14y ago
A. Roger Ekirch "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isle" http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ah00034... This is the seminal article on segmented sleep. Pretty fascinating stuff. And a shorter TED v
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by macchina 14y ago
argh, obviously you're right – this is the second time i've done something like this today, I need definitely need more sleep

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